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China's new AI regulations take effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable agent and persona features. The 'Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Se…
AI workloads are driving uncontrolled cloud costs, with some environments seeing expenses double in 30 days due to ungoverned LLM endpoints, vector databases, and GPU instances. The problem mirrors earlier cloud sprawl b…
Microsoft оголосила про скорочення 4 800 співробітників (2,1% персоналу) через стрімке зростання витрат на інфраструктуру штучного інтелекту та необхідність підвищення ефективності бізнесу. Акції компанії впали майже на …
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced that artificial intelligence will be the 'central plank' of the city's economic development, guided by its first five-year blueprint and upcoming policy address. Speaking at t…
Chinese firms are shifting from Nvidia to domestic AI chips as Beijing certifies nine homegrown processors for state procurement, potentially collapsing Nvidia's China market share from 66% to 8% by 2026. Huawei's Ascend…
Apple now routes user data to Google Cloud for AI processing, undermining its privacy promises. Google automatically opted users into storing uploaded media for AI training. The partnership creates a data pipeline betwee…
Keyfactor announced a $1 billion-plus strategic growth investment led by Summit Partners on July 6, 2026, to expand trust infrastructure for AI and post-quantum enterprise security. The funding aims to address machine id…
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Naver signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an AI foundation model for defense applications, combining Naver's AI and cloud technologies with KAI's aerospace expert…
An engineering team at an unnamed company audited its autonomous AI agent fleet and discovered 34 user-facing features that had silently failed, returning polite errors while dashboards remained green. The team identifie…
Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2…
Microsoft laid off about 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a shift toward engineering-led AI customer support. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2025 and coincide with the launch of Mic…
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Naver, and Naver Cloud signed a memorandum of understanding on July 6, 2026, to develop a defense-specialized AI foundation model and physical-AI systems for South Korea's future combat …
A 75,000-character resignation letter from DingTalk product manager Teng Yaxin exposed toxic workplace culture at Alibaba's team collaboration platform, leading to CEO Chen Hang's ouster. The letter detailed extreme pres…
A developer examines the extent to which AI systems manipulate human behavior, analyzing mechanisms such as recommendation algorithms and personalized content that shape user decisions without explicit consent. The analy…
Hong Kong cinema faces an existential threat from AI-generated content, which is flooding the market and undermining human creativity. The author argues that without proper regulations to protect intellectual property an…
Microsoft launched Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative deploying 6,000 engineers into enterprise offices to build and run AI systems on-site, following similar moves by AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The model aims …
Teams are rushing to add AI to every workflow without questioning whether it adds value, mirroring the cautionary tale of the film 'Obsession' where a magical shortcut leads to unintended consequences. AI maturity should…
Professor Michael Blumenstein has joined Flinders University as Vice-President and Executive Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, bringing over 20 years of experience in AI and IT. The appointment aims to stre…
Google quietly updated its privacy settings in June to automatically opt all search users into allowing the company to store uploaded media—including photos, audio, and video—for training its AI models. The change, confi…
South Korea policy chief Kim Yong-beom defended a 10-year national AI strategy on July 6, tying semiconductor, AI data-center and physical-AI projects to long-term investment plans from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. …